New Delhi: The Delhi police arrested a man for kidnapping a nine-year-old girl with a desire to marry her here on Sunday, the police said.
According to the police, the accused Kamlesh works as a labourer and had worked at the victim's house about a month ago. Since then, he used to visit the house to interact with the girl.
On Sunday, he tried to convince her to marry him, but she refused. The accused then kidnapped her, police said. The Delhi police nabbed him at Mahoba railway station while he was travelling to a village in Uttar Pradesh.
"Kamlesh planned to kidnap her so that he could force the family of the girl and the girl herself to marry him," a senior police officer said.
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